Before we actually see Curley’s wife, we hear the men talking about Curley’s wife, which informs us about Curley’s wife and what the men thinks of her. Some of the word the men use to describe, are word such as ‘tart’, which shows that the men thinks she is flirtatious, which is reinforce by ‘ she got the eye’, which shows the men thinks she is looking for different men although she is married. She is also called a ‘jail-bait’, which shows they think that she will get the men into trouble with Curley. Also it shows that they think that she isn’t to be trusted.
In section 4, we see a new side to Curley’s wife personality. When she speaks to Crooks, she is more intimidating, and she isn’t trying to get attention or trying to make friends. She is now being aggressive also she is now being more manipulative. She threatens to get Crook lynched by making fake allegations that Crook raped her. She says that ‘I could get you strung up on an easily, it isn’t funny, which shows us that she knows her own power, also that they won’t believe Crook instead of her.
We learn about hr dream and hope, we learn that her dream was to be in the ‘pitchers’ and that she got very to close to that dream, but it didn’t happen because her mum did allow her to go with the producer. We see a sense of resentment and angry to her mother. We also learn that the life she is living isn’t what she wants. She feels trapped between living a life where she is at the bottom of the class system and a marriage to a man who she doesn’t love.
When she dies, we feel empathy for her, because she was powerless to stop Lennie
